Photos: Bangladesh Factory Safety

The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, built on swampy ground outside Dhaka, killed 1,132 workers and focused International attention on sometimes lax safety standards in Bangladesh’s booming garment industry. At least five different Bangladesh agencies have dispatched teams to start inspecting the country’s thousands of garment factories, but there has been little coordination between them.

Rasheda, 15, who used to work for Abul Khair Steel Mills, stands outside a ward of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation in Dhaka, July 4, 2013. Rasheda said she lost one of her hands and another one has been critically injured in an accident while working for the steel company in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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